Love Creates Possibility of Evil
A Creator’s Options
- 1 create nothing
- 2 create an amoral world: no evil, no good
- 3 create only automatons, no free choice
- 4 create free will to choose right or wrong, to love or not to love
Love must not be coerced to be true love
- no love possible in options 1-3, only possible in #4
- love requires loving enough to give the freedom to reject the love
- love without pain is superficial love
Evil is man’s choice, not God’s
- take responsibility for own actions
- don’t blame God for man’s evil
- natural pain is not evil but “God’s Megaphone” (C.S. Lewis)